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Wanted: Single, White Male for Medical Research

Author

Dresser, Rebecca

Bibliographic Citation

Hastings Center Report. 1992 Jan-Feb; 22(1): 24-29.

Abstract

How did white males come to be the prototype of the human research
subject? Whether misplaced chivalry or tacit assumption of a human norm, the
exclusion of women and nonwhite minorities is a glaring moral mistake.